John Cage's concerts taught us to hear silence. Can novels do the same?
Sam Carter
Sam Carter is a PhD candidate in Romance Studies at Cornell and an editor at Asymptote, an international journal of translation. His work has also appeared online at the New Republic. 
What’s in a Gaze?
Only one authenticated portrait of the three Brontë sisters survives. Completed by their brother, Branwell, around 1834, it was discovered atop a cupboard in 1914. Remarkable as a record of the ...
Ricardo Piglia and the Art of Interruption
With the attendant assurance of a 22-year-old, Ricardo Piglia proposed in 1964 that “Fundamentally, to narrate means to take charge of the distance between the ...